Professional Mastership Competitions

09.09.2016

 

The best are winners

On the threshold of two professional holidays in sequence - Railroad Man's Day and Miner's Day - Bogatyr Coal LLP hold a traditional competition called Best in Profession amongst PE2M(U) traction unit operators. Ten specialists of a railroad profile took part in the professional mastership competition.

At the  beginning of the competition its participants were congratulated by Nurlan Mukulov, Director for Personnel and Social Policy of the company. He wished good luck and victory in the honest struggle to all the competition participants. The contest was opened from a theory part, in which the participants had to demonstrate their excellent knowledge of the subject. All of them were given 50 test questions each. For example, they had to answer the following questions correctly: "How to check the working order of a lock to a lock (against self-detachment)?" or "What are the main parts of a crane of a locomotive auxiliary brake of a conventional #254 locomotive?" According to the competition conditions a participant received one point for each correct answer. By the results of the first tour the following operators were the leaders: amongst the veterans – V.Kolesnikov (48 points), amongst the youth - A. Shaimerdenov (47 points). Then the drawing procedure determined the order of competing in the practical part. Everybody had to demonstrate excellent skills and professional intuition when operating a locomotive, namely speaking to stop a PE2M(U) traction unit not knocking off a set up bar. The best in the practical part was D.Makushin amongst the veterans and B.Bagatov amongst the youth.

By the point total for two rounds the three best operators were determined in each age group. The price winners amongst the veterans were Ramazan Nurashev - the 1-st place (94 points); Dmitry Makushin - the 2-nd place (92 points); Vyacheslav Zorin - the 3rd place (91 points). Among the youth - Boris Bagatov took the 1-st place (91 points); Aidyn Shaimerdenov - the 2-nd place (77 points); Yevgeniy Zhitnikov – the 3-rd place (75 points).

All the price winners were awarded with letters of award, winner's cups, gifts and prize money. The other participants were also awarded for the participation and demonstrated efforts in the competition for best operators amongst PE2M(U) traction unit operators. 

A week before a similar competition was held amongst OPE-1 and diesel unit operators. The triples of prize winners were Yevgeniy Repnikov (the 1-st place), Denis Posunko (the 2-nd place), Mikhail Litvinenko (the 3-rd place) amongst OPE-1 locomotive operators (youth); Vladislav Brandukov (the 1-st place), Aleksandr Prokopenko (the 2-nd place), Denis Olkhov (the 3-rd place) amongst OPE-1 locomotive operators (veterans); Ruslan Syzdykov (the 1-st place), Andrey Butrov (the 2-nd place), Aleksandr Yefimov (the 3-rd place) amongst diesel locomotive operators.         

Kanat ALDABAYEV

Photo by Oleg MALCHUK.